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The TITLES of the STATUTES. 29. An Act for making more effectual the Laws appointing the Oaths for Security of the Government, to be taken by Ministers and Preachers in Churches and meeting houses in Scotland.

30. An Act for amending and making more effectual the Laws for repairing the Highways, Bridges, and Ferries in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland.

31. An Act for enlarging the Time granted by an Act of the ninth and tenth Years of King William, for cleansing and making navigable the Channel from the Hythe at Colchester to Wivenhoe; and for making the said Act more effectual.

32. An Act for Relief of such Sufferers of the Islands of Nevis and St. Christopher's, as have settled in either of those Islands, and made due Proof of such Settlement before the twenty-fifth Day of December 1712.

PRIVATE ACTS.

Anno 5 Georgii I.

1. AN Act for repairing the Roads from the Top of Stoken-Church Hill to Enslow Bridge, and the Road leading from Wheatley Bridge through the City of Oxon by Begbrooke, to New Woodstock in the County of Oxon (except the Mile way on each Side the City) and to disable all Commissioners or trustees appointed for repairing of any Highways or Roads, to have any Place of Profit arising out of the Toll for repairing such Highways or Roads.

2. An Act for repairing the Roads from Beconsfeld in the County of Bucks, to Stoken-Church in the County of Oxon.

3. An Act to render more effectual the Agreements that have been made between Thomas Holles Duke of Newcastle, Henry Pelham, Esq; Edward Lord Harley, and the Lady Henrietta his Wife, William Vane and Gilbert Vane, Esquires, Sons of Christopher Lord Bernard, or any of them, in Relation to the Will and Estate of John late Duke of Newcastle, and for settling the same in such Manner as may be agreeable to the Intent of the said Agreements and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

4. An Act to vest the See and Inheritance of the capital Message called Hallifax House in St. James's Square, in the Parish of St. James, Westminster, and the Castle and Manor of Fotheringhay in the County of Northampton, in Trustees, to be sold together with a Term of five hundred Years devised by William late Lord Marquis of Halifax to his Executors, in Trust, for the better Performance of his Will.

5. An Act for Relief of Sir Nicholas Tempest, Baronet, touching an Estate demised to him by William late Lord Widdrington and Lady Jane his late Wife, many Years before the Attainder of the said late Lord Widdrington.

6. An Act to enable William Glanvill, Esq; to take upon him the Surname of Glanvill, instead of his Surname of Evelyn, pursuant to the Will of William Glanvill, Esq; deceased.

7. An Act to enable William Pulteney, Esq; and the Persons in Remainder after him, to make Leases of the Houses and Ground therein mentioned, and to rectify some mistakes in two Leases from King Charles the Second to Sir William Pulteney, and from King William the Third to John Pulteney, Esq.

8. An Act for vesting certain Lands and Tenements in the County of Somerset, the Estate of Thomas Jett, Esq; in Trustees, to be sold, and with the Money arising thereby, to purchase other Lands of the like Value, to be settled to the same Uses.

9. An Act for vesting in John Porrett, Gent, and his Heirs, Part of the Estate of Thomas Davison, Esq; at Stranton, Seaton, Carew and Thorp Thewles in the County of Durham, freed from the Uses and Trusts of the said Thomas Davison's Marriage Settlement, and to settle other Lands of better Value to the same Uses.

10. An Act for Sale of several Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Westmorland in the County of Kent, and with the Moneys arising by such Sale to purchase other Lands in or near the County of Northampton, to be settled to the same Uses.

11. An Act for vesting an Estate late of Francis Philips, Esq; in Barking in the County of Essex, in Trustees, to be sold for the Purposes therein mentioned.

12. An Act to enable Thomas Willoughby, Esq; and the Persons in Remainder after him, to make a Jointure.

13. An Act to enable Catherine Paul, an Infant, to transfer the Trust therein mentioned, as if she were of the Age of one and twenty Years.

14. An Act for confirming an Agreement between the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, Governors of she Possessions, Revenues and Goods of the Hospitals of Edward King of England the Sixth, of Christ, Bridewell and St. Thomas the Apostle, and the Governors of the Schools founded by Erasmus Smith, Esq.

15. An Act for Sale of Part of the Estate of Robert Barnwell, Esq; and for purchasing other Lands to be settled to the same Uses, as the Estate to be sold is settled.

16. An Act for Sale of the Estate of Nathaniel Long late of London Merchant, deceased, for Payment of his Debts, and for applying the Residue according to the Direction of his Will.

17. An Act to naturalise Peter Sejourne, Samuel Dufresmay, and Peter Lucas.

18. An Act for naturalising Lodowick Christian Sprogell.

19. An Act for making the town and Township of Sunderland a distinct Parish from the Parish of Bishop Wearmouth in the County of Durham.

20. An Act for vesting the Manors of Aske, Catterton, and other Lands in the County of York, and County of the City of York, Part of the Estate of Philip Duke of Wharton, in Trustees, to be sold or mortgaged for the Purposes therein mentioned.

21. An Act to enable the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, or Lord High Treafurer for the Time being, to compound with Jasper Cullum for the Debts he stands engaged for to the Crown on Account of Richard Lee, Thomas Corbin, Hencage Robinson and John Fox, for the Duties on Tobacco.

22. An Act to enable the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, or Lord High Treasurer for the Time being, to compound with Robert Wemes for the Debt due from him to his Majesty, in Relation to the Duties on Salt.

23. an Act to enable Robert Packer, Esq; and Mary his Wife, Winchcombe Howard Packer, (their Son a Minor) Henrietta Winchcombe, and Thomas Skerret, Esq; and Dame Elizabeth Winchcombe his Wife, to enter their respective Claims before the Commissioners and Trustees for determining Claims upon the forfeited Estates, and to impower the said Commissioners and Trustees to hear and determine the said Claims.

24. An Act for the Relief of Edward Clent, Esq; Executor of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Clent, for an Army Debenture lost in the Pay office.

25. An Act to naturalise Peter Lamy de Hame, and Charlotte Whetstone. PUBLICK